19/05/2025
Deploying a production-ready, self-hosted Kubernetes cluster—whether on-premises or on VPS—requires thoughtful planning across networking, storage, monitoring, high availability, and lifecycle management. This guide captures real-world implementation practices and tooling used in enterprises and by DevOps teams managing their own clusters.
(MetalLB/HAProxy/HardwareLB(F5)/Nginx
(Longhorn/Rook-Ceph/OpenEBS/NFS)
(Prometheus, Grafana, Loki/EFK)
(Velero, etcdctl, Longhorn Snapshots)
(HPA, KEDA
/CRD (Knative, KubeVirt)
-manager(Security & DNS, ExternalDNS, cert-manager, WireGuard, Calico)
(Node Problem Detector, Kured)
Overview Deploying a production-ready, self-hosted Kubernetes cluster—whether on-premises or on VPS—requires thoughtful planning across networking, storage, monitoring, high availability, and lifecycle management. This guide captures real-world implementation practices and tooling used in enterp...